Africa: One in Four People in Africa Have to Pay Bribes to Access Services, Corruption Barometer Shows (Afrobarometer)

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Accra — The new Global Corruption Barometer - Africa 2019, released on African Anti-Corruption Day by Transparency International and Afrobarometer, reveals that more than one in four people who accessed public services during the previous year had to pay a bribe.

A majority of citizens surveyed in 35 African countries think that corruption is getting worse and that their government is doing a poor job of fighting it, the report indicates.

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